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Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Dispatch

Excess Deaths Associated with Rheumatic Heart Disease, Australia, 2013–2017

Ingrid StaceyComments to Author , Rebecca Seth, Lee Nedkoff, Vicki Wade, Emma Haynes, Jonathan Carapetis, Joseph Hung, Kevin Murray, Dawn Bessarab, and Judith Katzenellenbogen
Author affiliations: The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (I. Stacey, L. Nedkoff, E. Haynes, J. Carapetis, J. Hung, K. Murray, D. Bessarab, J. Katzenellenbogen); Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia (R. Seth); Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia (L. Nedkoff); National Heart Foundation of Australia, East Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (V. Wade); Telethon Kids Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia (J. Carapetis, J. Katzenellenbogen)

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Excess RHD-associated mortality by Indigenous status and age at death, Australia, 2013–2017. A) Indigenous; B) non-Indigenous. Background mortality rates (from the Australian Bureau of Statistics) were subtracted from the observed mortality rates (in the RHD study cohort), generating excess mortality rates (the direct and indirect RHD-associated mortality rate). RHD, rheumatic heart disease.

Figure 2. Excess RHD-associated mortality by Indigenous status and age at death, Australia, 2013–2017. A) Indigenous; B) non-Indigenous. Background mortality rates (from the Australian Bureau of Statistics) were subtracted from the observed mortality rates (in the RHD study cohort), generating excess mortality rates (the direct and indirect RHD-associated mortality rate). RHD, rheumatic heart disease.

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